>> I have a sizable collection of recordings of bassoon music <<
It’s a formidable instrument — and capable of sublime beauty.
But it has long puzzled me as to why nobody seems to have succeeded in playing any memorable jazz on the bassoon. Great jazz has been played on instruments as diverse as the accordion (Art van Damme), the harmonica (Larry Adler), the mellophone (Don Eliot), the violin (Stephane Grappelli) and the oboe (Bob Cooper). But why not the bassoon?